Associations to the word «Constipation»

Wiktionary

CONSTIPATION, noun. Act of crowding anything into a lesser compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
CONSTIPATION, noun. A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.

Dictionary definition

CONSTIPATION, noun. Irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis.
CONSTIPATION, noun. The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope